I’ve been thinking about the recent resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich and what it means, not only as a user of this particular search engine, but as someone paying attention to the direction in which the political winds blow.…

At the end of the initial sign up period for the Affordable Healthcare Act, the Administration announced that the program had signed 7.1 million people up for health insurance (8 million in numbers released subsequently) and took their own “Mission Accomplished” victory lap. After all, 7 million was the number that the Non-partisan Congressional Budget Office predicted would be sold during the initial rollout before even it began, and without discussion as to why, became the benchmark by which both sides measured success.…

Despite the dire prognostications of the Pennsylvania rodent population, the contradictory evidence of flowers that seem brave enough to begin poking their way into the sunlight (though forced to do so through the semi-frozen ground of global climate change) and despite the mirage of lingering snow drifts to your lying eyes — spring is finally here.…

I hereby freely admit to being a climate change denier. I’ve listened to all the accounts, from the news readers to the opinions of pundits, and have read some of the limited amount of scholarly work on the subject.…

There’s news on the street that in spite of putting forward a position paper two weeks ago on the ground rules for taking on comprehensive immigration reform legislation in the current session, Republicans have reconsidered and are now saying that it’s unlikely such legislation will occur this year.…

We got a break from a disappointing TV and movie award show season to watch a political one instead. Like the performances in it’s sad predecessors however, it’s difficult to know what to be more disappointed about in this week’s State of the Union address. The whole things seemed like little more recycled material from writers worn out by their boss’s prodigious ‘speechifying’ that failed even as a “Best of …” effort. Even a fine performance by the ‘First Actor’ couldn’t save a tired and lackluster script.…